Rights Quotes · Page 51

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

— Aaron Tveit

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

— Augusto Pinochet

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

— Kofi Annan

Voting rights matter. They are a major part of who we are as Americans.

— Marc Veasey

“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

— Israel Shahak

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

— Tariq Ramadan

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

— Penn Jillette

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

— Edgar Schein

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

— Santan Dave

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

— L. Neil Smith

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color…

— Hillary Clinton

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

— Amy Klobuchar

One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen,…

— Judy Sheindlin

A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with…

— Stephen Colbert

If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national…

— Ilana Mercer

Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It…

— Ezra Taft Benson

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of…

— Gary L. Francione

No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what…

— Chrissy Teigen

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things…

— Al Sharpton

“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the…

— Immanuel Kant

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…

— Anonymous

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their…

— Arthur Balfour

“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”…

— GaryLFrancione

“The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected,…

— Lundy Bancroft

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any…

— Murray Rothbard

Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.…

— Shirin Ebadi

I am saying it myself that 'Aashiqui' should not end with me. I don't hold the rights of the film.

— Rahul Roy

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

— Liu Xiaobo

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

— Philip Wollen

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

— Derrick Bell

What we're trying to push, as a group, is just equal rights.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.

— Raphael Warnock

“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—”

— Thom Hartmann

“Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.”

— M.F. Moonzajer